Chapter 3468: Awesome!
Inside the Invisible Room.
The long sword was pulled out from the head of a rule-breaker. Of the four encountered, three had been slaughtered, and the remaining one "escaped."
Su Xiao's original plan was that if two of them escaped from the Invisible Room, he would chase and kill one in Ring Tree City. The best result was to kill three and leave one.
Su Xiao put on a single-sided wireless earphone. After pressing the touch key on the earphone, he said: "Xiang Bubu."
"Woof!"
Xiang Bubu's barking appeared in the earphone, followed by the hissing sound of signal switching. A few seconds later, this hissing sound turned into the sound of wind and heavy panting. This was the reason for leaving a living one.
In ancient times, bee catchers made a living by catching hornets and bee pupae, selling the processed hornets and bee pupae to medicine merchants. How did these bee catchers find hornet nests continuously? Searching bit by bit in the mountains? No.
Bee catchers would go to flower fields, attract hornets with pieces of minced meat, and after catching them, they wouldn't kill them, but tie feathers to the hornets, which were both light and easy to observe.
After releasing these hornets tied with tree fluff, just follow them, and it wouldn't take long to find the location of the hornet nest.
Not being able to find the approximate location of the Gray Gentleman made Su Xiao feel like a bone in his throat. He took out his personal terminal and opened the electronic map he had captured along the way. Ring Tree City and a surrounding area appeared on the screen. There were many locations that were black, representing that Su Xiao, Xiang Bubu, and Baja hadn't been there.
Drip, drip, drip~
The red dot on the map was moving fast. It could be seen that the three temporary teammates were slaughtered, and this rule-breaker brother was very panicked.
Su Xiao walked out of the Invisible Room. The World Shop refreshed many good things, but he couldn't afford them, and he couldn't buy them either.
One good news was that the items inside became diverse, and many exchange items for a few points of Killing Merit appeared, and there were quite a few for ten-plus points each.
Su Xiao looked at Aidoer. Aidoer tossed the Doom Coin in her hand. The coin landed one meter from the ground and still remained upright.
Compared to before, Aidoer was much calmer, because she had a bottom line in her heart. 【Precipitated Glaze】 in hand was a bargaining chip. She stayed in the Dawn Team to obtain 【Angelic Fighting Will】, which was the case from beginning to end.
As for after obtaining 【Angelic Fighting Will】, did she still need to think? Of course, it was to use a life-saving prop to slip away immediately, and rush to join her miner friend, hiding thousands of meters underground until the end of this world.
Thinking of this, Aidoer wanted to laugh out loud, but thinking that she was just a little bit away from obtaining 【Angelic Fighting Will】, she felt itchy and liver-hurting again. She could feel that the other party was really prepared to give her 【Angelic Fighting Will】 as a reward for this cooperation, but just didn't give it directly, but hung it bit by bit. Every time 【Angelic Fighting Will】 was closer to her, just now, the tip of her index finger faintly touched 【Angelic Fighting Will】. She was going crazy with greed.
Aidoer tossed the Doom Coin again. This time it was heads, small doom. She said:
"I just overdrawn my luck, and it will recover in a few hours, so it's not a big problem. I estimate that our tracking this time won't be very smooth."
Hearing this, Su Xiao continued to track the coordinates. It is worth mentioning that the Doom Coin was a bit "snobbish."
This thing, if Su Xiao tossed it once, it would temporarily reduce 1 point of luck attribute. On the contrary, if Aidoer tossed it, it became a probabilistic deduction of luck attribute. After tossing for so long, 1 point of luck attribute hadn't been temporarily reduced yet.
Su Xiao tracked at a speed that wasn't fast. When he arrived near Ring Tree City, the tracking target arrived at the central belt of the Ancient Capital. The other party stopped. In Su Xiao's earphone, the conversation from that side appeared.
"We encountered Kukuline Bai Ye. He is in Ring Tree City. Call everyone, let's go besiege him."
"Why go besiege him?"
A cold female voice came.
"He is our enemy. Just now he took the initiative to provoke and killed my three temporary teammates. This grudge must be avenged."
"I told you before, don't go to Ring Tree City, don't go to the World Shop. Didn't you hear? We entered the Tree-Born World by unconventional means, making the survival quota here compressed to 100 people, which itself is hateful enough. Kukuline Bai Ye, Solomon, Enzo, and that silly Anonymous, are all directly hostile to us."
The cold female voice said this and let out a long breath. She was clearly a leader among the rule-breakers.
"Now you still want to take revenge? Or wait quietly, wait for the Gray Gentleman to find Bai Ye?"
"Cough~, everyone has their own life. Revenge can be slowed down. I believe that if the three of them have spirits in heaven, they will definitely understand me."
"You are too damn real, but after coming to the Tree-Born World, everyone is brothers, we must be united."
The voice of Beast Hero came. Suddenly, Beast Hero's tone changed, and he asked urgently: "You have a biological electrical reaction exceeding the body frequency. You have technological prosthetics?."
"Technological prosthetics? I don't have that thing."
"F*ck! It's a tracker, blow him up!"
"Wait! Wait! Just dismantle the tracker! No need to blow me up! Beast Hero you..."
Hum!!
Su Xiao was shaken and tilted his head slightly. After taking the wireless earphone out of his ear and rubbing his ear canal to relieve the stinging pain in his inner ear, the surface brothers on the rule-breaker side were truly caught off guard.
It could be said that the rule-breakers' method of solving the tracker was quite hardcore. The whole person was blown up, and the tracker was naturally excluded.
Su Xiao pondered for a while, feeling that Ring Tree City couldn't stay. If the Gray Gentleman knew he was here, he might come here to detonate high-power explosives.
Out of Ring Tree City, Su Xiao rushed to a mountainous area more than 30 kilometers away. After finding a semi-open cave as a temporary residence, he sat on a stone platform and meditated with his eyes closed.
Too much talk leads to mistakes, too much action leads to negligence, so Su Xiao chose to do nothing and just wait. He could afford to wait.
Su Xiao had already finished what he needed to do. He found the Soul-Severing Shadow Stone and used the Talent Awakening Device. No one stipulated that he must solve the grudge with the Gray Gentleman in this world. This was indeed a good opportunity, but not the only opportunity.
In other words, even if Su Xiao did nothing next, he was still the winner. The Gray Gentleman had a plan to destroy the world? If he had the ability, he could blow up the entire Tree-Born World. If he couldn't, then it was the Gray Gentleman in the light and Su Xiao in the dark.
Under these circumstances, waiting to see what the Gray Gentleman was going to do, and then taking appropriate methods to deal with it, was the best strategy.
While waiting, time passed quickly. Su Xiao meditated every day and never felt bored. Aidoer, who always wanted to get 【Angelic Fighting Will】, was so uncomfortable that she rolled on the ground.
In a flash, two days passed.
"Dinner."
Aidoer's voice came. Su Xiao ended his meditation, looked at the Sichuan pepper sour and spicy pork chops on the table, and after sitting down, took a chopstick full to eat. His chewing action paused, finding that things were not simple.
"Boss, how does it taste? It smells quite fragrant. Didn't see it, Aidoer is so versatile."
Baja asked.
"It's okay."
Hearing Su Xiao's words, Baja also tasted a bite. He raised an eyebrow and said: "Quite good, Xiang Bubu, you try it."
Xiang Bubu Wang ate a large mouthful of braised lamb chops. He was choked by the pepper flavor, and then a force rushed straight to his forehead. His dog paws covered his head, and the whole dog was stunned there.
"How is it, my mustard pepper lamb chops are not bad, right."
Aidoer picked up a lamb chop and ate it happily.
"..."
Su Xiao didn't speak, took out some quick-heat meals, let Baja go heat them, and finished this meal hastily.
After the meal, Aidoer, who had cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks, sat at the dining table contentedly. Judging from her expression, she should have her own unique standard for the definition of delicious food.
Su Xiao was considering one thing: how to maximize Aidoer's utilization value. He kept her until now because of her fantastic luck.
Su Xiao had checked the other party's information. Her 15 points of luck attribute actually had a better effect than the luck brought by his 50 points of luck attribute. This was very unscientific.
Or rather, luck itself was unscientific and had no reason to speak of. This thing involved fate, causality, etc., and was not something Su Xiao could control now.
Su Xiao indeed couldn't control luck, but he could control people with good luck, such as Aidoer.
Su Xiao handed the 【Holy Snake Protection】 pendant to Aidoer and let her wear it on her neck. Aidoer herself was very lucky. With the blessing of this lucky object, her luck would only be better.
Aidoer put on 【Holy Snake Protection】. After seeing the attributes of this pendant, she wanted it from the bottom of her heart, then suppressed this thought.
At this time, the Holy Snake inside the hollow gem shed tears of emotion in its eyes. It wanted to say, this is the life a snake should live. Traces of bad luck spread from the surroundings. Looking at the wrist Su Xiao wrapped it on, the amount of bad luck was like sticking a high-pressure fire hose into its mouth and turning the valve to the maximum.
Ignoring the Holy Snake's thoughts, Su Xiao took out the 【Doom Coin】 and tossed it to Aidoer.
Tossing the Doom Coin and getting heads was a small doom, representing that you were about to be unlucky. Tails was a big doom, representing that you were about to face the threat of death.
Su Xiao had wanted Aidoer to toss the 【Doom Coin】 while wearing 【Holy Snake Protection】 to judge good and bad luck, but the problem was that Aidoer always wanted to run away before. Now there was no need to worry about it.
"Toss."
Su Xiao spoke. Aidoer tossed the Doom Coin with a face full of unease.
Ding~
The 【Doom Coin】 flew up. Su Xiao tossed this thing ten times and got big doom seven times, so he felt this thing was useless.
He decided to do an experiment. If it didn't work, he would throw the 【Doom Coin】 to Caesar like the 【Ouroboros Slate】, letting him know the dangers of the world.
Seeming to perceive the violent fluctuation of fate, the Doom Coin landed in mid-air one meter from the ground. It wasn't heads, nor tails; it actually stood up.
Xiang Bubu Wang and Baja both widened their eyes. Heads is unlucky, tails is death, what does standing up count as? Count as good luck?
Su Xiao picked up the Doom Coin and tossed it casually. With a ding, the Doom Coin landed in mid-air, tails, big doom.
Seeing this, Aidoer said with a honey-smeared mouth: "Not good, tails means you might die. You have a death look, be careful."
"..."
Su Xiao ignored Aidoer, picked it up, and tossed it again. It was still tails, big doom. This time he was sure that the Doom Coin was normal, and it was Aidoer's luck that was abnormal.
Su Xiao took out the 【Soul Money Bag】 from the storage space. After handing it to Aidoer, he drew the long sword from his waist and held it against Aidoer's neck.
"Open."
"Okay!"
Aidoer answered particularly crisply, no longer like a honey-smeared mouth.
【Soul Money Bag: After opening, you can obtain 1 to 10,000 Soul Coins.】
Aidoer opened the Soul Money Bag with an uneasy mood. With a swish, a large amount of Soul Coins gushed out from the money bag like a fountain.
Su Xiao activated the function of the storage space and sucked the sprayed Soul Coins into it. Two minutes later, he received a notification.
【You have obtained 7,275 Soul Coins.】
Seeing this, the long sword in Su Xiao's hand returned to its sheath. He took out a card booklet and handed it to Aidoer opposite, signaling her to open it. This was the random draw of team skill cards.
"Wait, ah phew phew, wait a moment."
Aidoer, who had a thick tongue when anxious, took out an incense candle under the puzzled gazes of Su Xiao, Xiang Bubu Wang, Baja, and Gulu watching the show at the door.
After Aidoer lit the incense candle, she hesitated and signaled Xiang Bubu to get closer, there was something good to see. Xiang Bubu leaned over to look, and Aidoer quickly used the fire head of the incense candle to burn the soft flesh of Xiang Bubu's dog mouth.
"Woo-ooh woof!"
Xiang Bubu Wang was burned and tilted his head back. Su Xiao and Baja both looked at Aidoer, their gazes "kind."
"Wait, this is borrowing luck. If I said it out just now, it wouldn't work. Only his luck is good."
Aidoer didn't continue. Her implication was that borrowing Baja's luck was equivalent to not borrowing it, and borrowing Su Xiao's might cause a negative bonus.
Xiang Bubu Wang licked his mouth. He indeed didn't feel a burn, but the luck of the recent period was ingested, and the luck returned to the growth level.
"Xiang Bubu, if there is danger later, you must take me to run. I am very sincere."
While Aidoer was speaking, the incense candle in her hand burned out quickly. This thing was burning luck, using it as smoke. After inhaling it, the luck just burned would explode in a short time. In simple terms, this was a one-time Fate Master, but because of the characteristic of consumables, the single-time effect was stronger than Fate Master.
This wasn't all. Aidoer ate a golden candy, took out a platinum narrow crown and put it on, and finally put on a ring. The one-time good luck set was gathered, and the great luck was concentrated on the next luck fluctuation.
"Open!"
Aidoer opened the card booklet with a full sense of secondary school spirit. With a swish, a large number of cards flew up. These cards formed a disk, rotated at high speed for more than ten times, clicked with a sound effect, and a card popped out.
Just as Aidoer grabbed this card, the four legs of the chair under her clicked and split. It was hard to understand how Aidoer, with a height of 1.60 meters and a weight of less than 95 pounds, sat and collapsed the chair.
The chair was collapsed, and Aidoer sat on the ground with a thud, causing the wooden floor to tremble slightly. The vibration was transmitted to the nearby wooden table.
The Gray Gentleman had been planning for so long that he must have known early on that the Tree-Born World was not lacking in Abyss Power, which is why he targeted the various dangerous entities that had sprouted in the Alliance Star due to the Abyss Power.
Just at this moment, the floor under Aidoer's butt clicked and cracked. She leaked to the bottom, and the wooden cabinet she was staring at just now folded into the hole and smashed onto her head.
"Eeya!"
Aidoer let out an exclamation. Baja flew down and picked her up. After standing firm, she held the team skill card in her hand, her eyes full of inexplicable luster.
"Let's exchange."
"..."
Su Xiao took out 【Angelic Fighting Will】 and tossed it to Aidoer. Aidoer opposite tossed the team skill card with full joy. One could only say, it was too sweet.
Zzz~
The Boundary Breaking Line tightened, and 【Angelic Fighting Will】 was pulled back. Su Xiao raised his hand, grabbed 【Angelic Fighting Will】 with one hand, and held the skill card with the other.
【You have obtained Team Skill Card: Thunder Breath Blessing (Passive, X).】
【Thunder Breath Blessing (Passive, X): Improve physique with active lightning. After triggering this ability, permanently increase 1 point of health per minute (increase cap is 5,000 points), increase 1 point of mana every five minutes (can increase up to 1,500 points), increase 1 point of thunder attribute resistance every day (can increase up to 30 points).】
【Notification: When the buff effect of Thunder Breath Blessing reaches the maximum, the bonus of this ability to the individual will be adaptively changed to increase high-amount thunder attribute resistance.】
"Ah this! Ah!"
Aidoer subconsciously wanted to raise her hand to grab it. With 【Angelic Fighting Will】 and successfully returning to Apocalypse Paradise, she would get a wash-point-like ability transformation, simply a salted fish turning over.
"Didn't we agree to give it to me."
Aidoer was very angry in her heart, but still had to keep smiling.
"This is a reasonable allocation of resources."
Su Xiao spoke.
"?"
Aidoer was stunned.
"You cannot guarantee that you can live until the end of this world. Your death rate is too high. If I give 【Angelic Fighting Will】 to you now and you die, it's equivalent to taking 【Angelic Fighting Will】 into the coffin. This is a huge waste of resources."
"??"
Aidoer was confused. She felt that what Su Xiao said was both reasonable and unreasonable.
Su Xiao tossed 【Precipitated Glaze】 back to Aidoer. In his view, the value of 【Angelic Fighting Will】 and 【Precipitated Glaze】 was similar, but 【Angelic Fighting Will】 was easier to sell.
"This is something that originally belonged to you, now returned to you. If you can live to the end, use it to exchange for 【Angelic Fighting Will】. I never lie. They can prove it."
Su Xiao raised his chin toward the direction of Xiang Bubu Wang and Baja.
"You lied to Zuiyas before..."
"..."
As Su Xiao's gaze gradually became severe, Aidoer's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared with her head lowered.
Su Xiao felt that he couldn't keep drawing big cakes. Plus, obtaining an X-grade team skill card made him feel good. He took out two candies and tossed one to Aidoer, which was 【Soul Candy】.
【Soul Candy】
Origin: Soul Arena (Unique)
Quality: Holy Spirit-grade (Soul item)
Type: Permanent soul buff item.
Effect: After eating, it can permanently increase soul strength. The lower the user's soul strength, the higher the increase brought.
Rating: 1,000 points.
Aidoer's eyes lit up. Although she was rich, things like 【Soul Candy】 were still hard to obtain. Things with special origins and small quantities were hard to buy.
Su Xiao looked at Gulu at the door and said: "There is one left, do you want to eat it."
"Heh~, who is this auntie, what candy haven't I eaten, how could I... thank you."
Gulu took the candy and left. Originally she didn't plan to want it, but this candy was hard to refuse.
"How much?"
Outside the door, Gulu, with the candy in her mouth, also felt better.
"Free."
Su Xiao took out a handful of Soul Candy. Gulu subconsciously took a big step back. That vigilant gaze seemed to be asking, what are you going to do.
Su Xiao was just showing Gulu. This was a big customer of Soul Candy. The remaining 11, without 3,000 Soul Coins each, it was impossible for him to sell. The taste of the soul, Su Xiao knew better than others, especially processed, more delicious Soul Candy.
Let Baja send the guests away, Su Xiao began to ponder. At this time, using the 【Navigation Compass】 to track the Gray Gentleman was already too late. The other party's plan had basically come to an end.
Su Xiao guessed that the Gray Gentleman had endured for so long, he must be seeking stability. In the material box dropped in the fourth stage, there was a special material box containing unique output of this world. The Gray Gentleman's goal was 90% likely to be this thing.
Priest, Fairy, Underworld Wolf, and all the rule-breakers who came to this world were all used by the Gray Gentleman. The Gray Gentleman actually didn't need them to do other things, just dragging time was enough. These rule-breakers thought they were guarding against the Gray Gentleman very well, but in fact, they were all arranged clearly.
Considering from the geographical location, there was no need to stay in Mushroom Village at the current stage. Going to the Ring Tree City of the Ancient Capital was safer. The material box drop was on the grassland of the Initial Tree in the Ancient Capital.
Su Xiao left the small wooden house where he was temporarily living and found that there were many fewer people in Mushroom Village. The fourth stage would start soon, and those people all went to grab the material boxes.
Su Xiao found that many familiar faces stayed behind. Solomon, the three brothers of the National Football Team, Water Brother, Scale Dragon · Alec, and others didn't rush to the Ancient Capital.
These were all sensible people, knowing that Su Xiao and the Gray Gentleman were likely to fight to the death in the Ancient Capital. Now that there was Bay City to fish for benefits, no one wanted to go to the muddy water of the Ancient Capital.
In the eyes of these people, it was not surprising that Su Xiao and the Gray Gentleman did anything shocking. These two guys were going to fight for life and death, so stay as far away as possible. Heaven knows if these two would use large-scale means to greet each other. Don't let the two of them not die, but watch the show and die, that would be too shameful.
Su Xiao estimated the number of people in Mushroom Village, turned back to the wooden house, activated the ancient statue, and teleported to the Initial Tree in the central area.
Two hours later, on the streets of the Ancient Capital · Ring Tree City.
Su Xiao observed the expressions of the passing Vine race and felt that there should be no major changes here.
Up to now, Su Xiao hadn't found any traces of the Gray Gentleman, which made one doubt whether the Gray Gentleman had really entered the Tree-Born World. Could it be that all this was a layout by the other party? Entering the Tree-Born World with a puppet to attract attention, and then the main body was in some native world, completing the plan that had been going on?
Su Xiao estimated that this was unlikely. There were many contradictions in many places. He walked on the street and checked the Killing Merit Ranking by the way. At this time, he had used up all the Killing Merit Cards.
【Ranking has been refreshed, the current ranking is as follows.】
First place: Solomon (Reincarnation Paradise), 175 points of Killing Merit.
Second place: Enzo (Death Paradise), 162 points of Killing Merit.
Third place: Bai Ye (Reincarnation Paradise), 141 points of Killing Merit.
Fourth place: Anonymous (Apocalypse Paradise), 70 points of Killing Merit.
Fifth place: Gulu (Reincarnation Paradise), 42 points of Killing Merit.
The acquisition amount of Killing Merit was not equivalent to the number of kills. This thing could be consumed and obtained through other channels. For example, Su Xiao's current 141 points of Killing Merit, 120 points of which were not obtained through killing.
The ranking competition for Killing Merit was not fierce. This was natural. If you wanted it to be fierce, it couldn't be fierce.
Originally, the top five were: Su Xiao, Priest, Solomon, Fairy, Saint Poetry.
As a result, among the top five, three were slaughtered by Su Xiao. Fairy died thoroughly, Priest and Saint Poetry, although not dead thoroughly, were also off the list. Plus, the Gray Gentleman and Crow Girl didn't participate in the competition in this regard. Under these circumstances, it would be strange if it could be fierce.
Looking at the current situation, Water Brother from Death Paradise had stood up. The other party was particularly good at fighting between contractors and contractors. This was the man who killed to become a god in the Painted World. I don't know if he could shake off the curse of being the second-place for ten thousand years this time.
Compared to Water Brother, the Apocalypse Paradise contractor named Anonymous was actually a dark horse, being particularly low-key before.
In fact, Su Xiao misunderstood. When Anonymous entered this world and saw the list of overlord units published by the Void Tree, his brain buzzed. His idea was, is this a place for humans to come?
But soon Anonymous found that these overlord units had grudges against each other and were in mutual restraint, so he took the opportunity to stand up.
Su Xiao closed the Killing Merit Ranking. This time he didn't want to reach the top spot. The 【Origin Magic Mirror (Abyss Product)】 rewarded for the top spot, after contacting the Abyss Jar, he had no interest in this thing.
If it was a "Daddy-grade" item, he couldn't pit it to Wood again. The Devil race was not a "Wild Daddy Club."
Compared to the reward for the first place, the 【Technique Soul (High-tier Technique Characteristic · Skill Scroll)】 for the second place was more satisfactory, so the control of intensity was very important this time. He must not be like the time in Azure Dragon Continent, using too much force, finally losing the second place, and being forced to be the first.
Temporarily idle, Su Xiao walked toward the Invisible Room. Now it was the third stage of this world, which meant the World Shop had refreshed twice.
Half an hour later, Su Xiao stopped in front of the large iron door of the Invisible Room. After pushing the door open, he found four people discussing something in front of the World Shop. Without reconnaissance, he knew that these four were rule-breakers.
Su Xiao's killing intent surged in his heart. He decided to find a reason to do these four rule-breakers. As the saying goes, if you have reason, you can walk all over the world; if you don't, you can only eat dust. Ring Tree City was the territory of the Vine race. If these four rushed out of the Invisible Room, he would have to chase and kill them.
If he killed people on the street in the territory of the Vine race, he had to give a reason, let the Vine race have a step down, and finally both sides give each other face, and the matter would be perfectly solved. Making enemies meaninglessly was unwise. Never try to step on the face of a race under your feet.
The four rule-breakers opposite walked toward him. What made Su Xiao puzzled was that the four people opposite didn't look forward, but walked fast looking at the ground under their feet. This obviously couldn't say things like "Why are you looking at me." People were looking at the ground.
Just as the two sides gradually approached, Su Xiao frowned and asked: "Why are you sneaky? Could it be... you want to harm me?"
"F*ck!"
"Your mother, I'll fight you."
"???"
All four started staring at Su Xiao. Just now, these four knew that such an encounter, the subsequent battle was inevitable. They originally planned to sneak attack after passing by, then run away immediately. Why run? Encountering the decapitating Night, must run. If you don't run, you die.
"Sure enough, you don't look like good people. I tested you slightly, and you revealed your true colors."
Hearing Su Xiao's words, the four angry people opposite gradually put on painful masks.
Law-Breaker Formula: The other party is sneaky = intent to do wrong = the other party is likely to take the initiative = it is the other party who moved first = our side is "forced" to meet the enemy.
Converted by the Law-Breaker Formula, before the other side could make a move, Su Xiao had already drawn the long sword from his waist and started to "forcedly" meet the enemy. ===== CHAPTER 3469 =====
As Aiduo'er held the 【Angel's Battle Intent】 in her hands, she felt as if she could already hear people calling her a healing-class big shot in the future.
"Hand it over."
"What?"
"..."
Su Xiao's gaze began to turn unfriendly. Aiduo'er suddenly realized and handed over the Holy Snake Protection and the Misfortune Gold Coin.
Seeing that Aiduo'er didn't try any tricks, Su Xiao tossed the small ancient idol given by the Mushroom Prophet to Aiduo'er. This thing couldn't be exchanged for Soul Stones, and it was useless to keep.
"Cooperation over, let's bolt."
After Baha spoke, he landed on Su Xiao's shoulder and headed into the gray fog with Su Xiao. In Su Xiao's judgment, "based on the rational distribution of resources," his probability of death afterward was much higher than Aiduo'er's. It was time to end the cooperation and give the reward; besides, continuing to bring Aiduo'er along was purely a drag.
Just now, Su Xiao had received a notification: the survival quantity limit had been lifted, and immediately after, his main quest changed to a completed state.
What did these two points represent? They meant that the remaining combatants in this world were fewer than 100. The Gray Gentleman had completely bared his fangs. If he wasn't mistaken, those rule-breakers who wanted to follow behind him to pick up cheap gains had all been tricked to death by him.
Su Xiao did not believe the Gray Gentleman would give up the advantage of numbers and encirclement, unless... those hundreds of rule-breakers could be converted into the Gray Gentleman's own power. Only one's own power was the most reliable.
"Ah, this..."
Aiduo'er, who was behind, still hadn't fully recovered, but immediately, she activated the small ancient idol. She had already decided to just hide in Mushroom Village afterward and never leave the village, dead or alive. That place was much safer than going to rely on her miner friends; Mushroom Village was a safe zone.
The gray fog came head-on. Su Xiao signaled Xiang Bubu and Baha to get close to him. He crushed the 【Plunder · Domination】 in his hand, and dark golden brilliance enveloped Su Xiao, Xiang Bubu Wang, and Baha, then vanished.
Su Xiao let Xiang Bubu Wang and Baha step back, and he walked alone toward the Death Domain. His soul strength was high, so even if a problem arose, he could hold out for a while longer.
Hiss hiss hiss~
The sensation of erosion struck. Dark golden patterns appeared around Su Xiao. He ignored this erosion—not by blocking it, but by ignoring and synchronizing with it. Su Xiao had guessed correctly: the Death Domain would not erode those favored by fate. Although he was only temporarily favored, it was still effective.
Taking Xiang Bubu Wang and Baha with him, Su Xiao returned to the ancient capital. The scene that met his eyes was like the end of the world; everything around was white fog, and all things were silent—even the damn microorganisms were dead.
Moving forward all the way, Su Xiao already knew where the Gray Gentleman had been hiding before. That guy had actually been hiding inside the Initial Tree in the center the whole time, pulling off a classic "darkness under the lamp" trick.
Amidst the dense white fog, Su Xiao returned to the vicinity of the central meadow. A giant semi-circular black shell blocked the front, like an inwardly slanting wall of heaven. Everything within a diameter of over ten kilometers ahead was wrapped inside this giant black shell.
Su Xiao disappeared from where he stood, and when he appeared, he delivered a straight kick.
Boom!!
A blast of air spread out. Su Xiao maintained his straight-kick posture for 2 seconds, then slowly retracted his leg and began to search for an entrance along the black wall of heaven in front.
After searching for a long time, until he returned to the starting point, he still hadn't found an entrance.
Su Xiao hesitated for a moment and decided to take a risk. He pressed one hand against the black wall of heaven in front, and a prompt appeared.
【Prompt (Tree of the Void): This is??? matter (insufficient authority to view this content). Do you wish to report the existence inducement of this matter? If you wish to report, please submit key information.】
A small dialogue box appeared in Su Xiao's line of sight. To be honest, he had been adventuring for so long and had truly never reported anyone. Judging from the Tree of the Void's prompt, for this current matter, if someone reported it, the Tree of the Void would handle it; if not reported, it would be ignored for now.
Su Xiao pondered any potentially useful clues. A moment later, he recalled the sentence the Queen's sister had used to exchange for freedom while in the Dark Domain: "Remember, Dawn is your only chance. It is not a symbol, but a title."
"Dawn."
Su Xiao submitted this keyword to the Tree of the Void. As soon as this submission was completed, a prompt appeared again.
【Prompt (Tree of the Void): This key term is valid, about to...】
【Prompt (Tree of the Void): Error accepted, forced interference party detected.】
【Prompt (Tree of the Void): The forced interference party is Reincarnation Paradise. Due to this action, 53,975 ounces of Space-Time Power have been deducted from Reincarnation Paradise.】
【Prompt (Reincarnation Paradise): Contact has been established.】
【Hunter brand authority has been opened beyond the tier!】
【Hunter function has been opened beyond the tier!】
【VII Combat Auxiliary Device is being deployed...】
【Forced interference by the Tree of the Void encountered, deployment failed.】
【Dark Wall is being unsealed...】
【Successfully unsealed.】
【War quest issued: Strangle Dawn once again!】
【Quest information volume is huge, being transmitted gradually...】
The prompts from Reincarnation Paradise appeared one after another. Although Su Xiao didn't fully understand what was going on, a large section of the black shell wall in front of him was damaged. This should be the "Dark Wall unsealed" that Reincarnation Paradise just prompted.
Su Xiao walked inside and found that the world within was black and white, and everything was a scene of ruin.
Seeing the first scene made Su Xiao very surprised. Why did this area in front look so much like a trading market? That slanted metal cabin was clearly an attribute enhancement cabin.
Looking around, Su Xiao saw a scene that was both familiar and strange. This place... seemed to be a ruined paradise.
That's right, this was Dawn Paradise.
Su Xiao stepped forward. Before he had walked many steps, he stepped on something. Looking down, it was a metal mask. After picking it up and examining it carefully, he confirmed that this was the same style of mask as the Leader's.
Taking a metal mask out of his storage space, Su Xiao compared the two and found that they were made of the same material.
Just as Su Xiao was puzzled, Reincarnation Paradise's quest information was transmitted. This time, the quest information could be called the greatest in history.
The place Su Xiao had come to was called Dawn Paradise. A long time ago, a direct war broke out between Reincarnation Paradise and Dawn Paradise—not a World Conquest War, but a crazier Paradise Conquest War.
At that time, both Reincarnation Paradise and Dawn Paradise were "Big Daddies." Within the rules of the Initial Regulations, the two Big Daddies conducted notarization through the Tree of the Void, thereby launching the Paradise Conquest War.
"One of the Initial Regulations: Both paradise factions must pass notarization, and both sides must submit a war application to the Tree of the Void, and more than 80% of the participating contractors from both paradise factions must agree to this Paradise Conquest War before the Tree of the Void will conduct war notarization."
Judging from the Initial Regulations, Apocalypse Paradise didn't need to worry. As long as they refused to agree to the war and kept acting cowardly, a Paradise Conquest War wouldn't break out. Only when Big Daddy fought Big Daddy could it truly start.
Compared to other paradise factions, why was Reincarnation Paradise so strong? Like a Big Daddy? This wasn't without reason. It was because many years ago, Reincarnation Paradise devoured most of Dawn Paradise, which led to the current scene.
It is worth mentioning that originally, Reincarnation Paradise did not have the Land of All Living Things; this was a high-level facility snatched away.
The reason the Leader's mask fragments appeared in the ruined Dawn Paradise was that, back then, it was the Leader who led the highest-tier contractors, hunters, and adjudicators of his side to attack Dawn Paradise. The Leader's mask was shattered during that time, which is why it remained here.
The current situation was that paradise factions were not so easily completely annihilated. After so many years, Dawn Paradise had recovered a sliver of its function, so it selected a Dawn Paradise contractor, and that contractor was Bee.
The Gray Gentleman used Bee, as well as the special notarization of the Tree-Born World, plus the unique "Seed of Creation" of the Tree-Born World, and finally, through the "Gradie Bracelet," allowed the "Seed of Creation" to sprout inside Bee, thereby dragging the ruined Dawn Paradise into the Tree-Born World.
Regarding this situation, the Tree of the Void did not care. Back then, Dawn Paradise was also one of the paradise factions notarized by the Tree of the Void; it was one of the Seven Paradises and the only paradise faction to be destroyed.
Even so, the fact that the Gray Gentleman used various plans to make the ruins left by Dawn Paradise appear here was already quite shocking. However, to be more precise, the Gray Gentleman only achieved this by relying on the Tree of the Void's notarization mechanism; individual power could not achieve this. Even if Dawn Paradise was now a ruin, it was the Tree of the Void that dragged the ruined Dawn Paradise over, not an individual.
Su Xiao looked at the battle traces that had survived to this day. Even after a long time, he could imagine the scene of the Leader leading people to attack this place back then.
End of Chapter
